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Making the Menopause a Normal Thing to Talk About

01/05/2022 Equality & Inclusion, Menopause, Mental Health, People Development, wellbeing

Anyone who knows me fairly well will have noticed 2 things about me over the last few months: 1. On a daily basis, I will lose words. Yesterday I described a hip-flask as ‘the small square thing’ and the day before I couldn’t think of the word for magic and instead ...

Menopause Awareness

21/04/2022 Equality & Inclusion, Mental Health, People Development, wellbeing

You know it’s a difficult subject when even Nicola Sturgeon says she’s nervous talking about it, because she’s hardly known for being backwards in coming forwards! So when we read yesterday that she finds it difficult to broach the subject of menopause and how it might affect her at work, ...

Rebuilding Team Dynamics

17/01/2022 Hybrid Working, People Development, Team Dynamics

Yesterday, I found myself transported back over 20 years: dashing down the escalators whilst switching my radio mic and earpiece on and opening the door shutters to Mango Plc’s flagship store in Oxford Circus…. all courtesy of Daft Punk’s “One More Time” – the first song on the store’s Spring ...

Stop Doing to Get Stuff Done

27/10/2021 Leadership, People Development

As some of you might know, I recently took a 17-month-pandemic-delayed trip for a yoga break in Morocco. Wall to wall sunshine, amazing fresh vegan food and 3 yoga classes a day worked their magic pretty quickly. My second night there I slept for a full 12 hours (unheard of ...

Lights, Camera, The Suspension of Disbelief

03/09/2021 People Development, theatre based corporate training

Lights, Camera, The Suspension of Disbelief Doesn’t exactly role of the tongue, does it? The Suspension of Disbelief is a curious thing. Most of us have experienced it at some point in our lives, and yet with its rather clunky phrasing, it is slippery and hard to define. The term was ...

Having a brave conversation

01/09/2021 Conversation Skills, Leadership, People Development

Teenage Drinking. There’s always that first time. The one where drinks are mixed and consumed at breakneck speed in large quantities with messy results. We’ve all been there, probably more than once. So last year when my then 15 year old step-daughter’s friend called us, emotionally reporting her vomity, semi-conscious ...

Leading your Hybrid Team

20/04/2021 People Development

The events of the last year have according to all experts and many businesses, changed the way we will be working forever. The mass return to the office will not be happening and instead, a more hybrid way of working will continue, or in fact start, given millions of people ...

Adopting a Growth Mindset

09/09/2020 Emotional intelligence, Inspiration, Leadership, People Development

Anybody who knows me also knows I’m a regular yoga bunny, and gets the value I place on the headspace and centre that yoga gives me. If you don’t do yoga (why not?), you’ll likely be unaware of some interesting pose names, (Sleeping Tortoise or Flying Lizard anyone?) or some ...

The Difficult Customer in My Home

27/08/2020 Mental Health, New Normal, People Development

In the news, yesterday morning, we heard that fifty of the UK's biggest employers have no plans to return all of their staff to the office full-time in the near future. Indeed, 24 companies have no plans to return their staff to the office. Some small businesses are even deciding ...

Cycling to Work Blog

04/08/2020 MBTI, New Normal, People Development

‘How Does an ESFP Get the Best From Their Day?’ What the heck has four letters got to do with getting the best out of your day? Are you a little bit cynical about the whole MBTI thing? Do you come out in a rash or cold sweat at the thought of having ...

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